Crisis States —— Governance, Resistance

----- 危机状态：治理、抵抗与不稳定的资本主义

ISBN: 9780988234086 出版年：2016 页码：84 Shantz, Jeff punctum books

This is an age of crisis: economic, political, environmental, and social. Yet the nature of contemporary crisis is often misunderstood. Crisis, rather than being accidental or episodic %’?as is too often assumed %’?has been a regular feature of state practice in the neoliberal austerity regimes of contemporary capitalism. In this timely work Jeff Shantz gives special attention to the particular manufactured crises associated with austerity regimes and conditions of precarity within contemporary capitalism, and how Crisis States differ from other forms of state practice. Crisis is a powerful weapon of sta